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词根词缀:chemo-, chem-, chemico-, chemi-, -chemist, -chemic, -chemical

【来源及含义】Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed

【同源单词】agrichemistry, agrochemical, alchemist, alchemy, allelochemics, allochemic

词根词缀:tomo-,-tom, -toma, -tomic, -tomize, -tome, -tomical, -tomically, -tomist, -tomous, -tomy; -otomy

【来源及含义】Greek: cut, incision; section; more often used as a suffix

【相关词根词缀】 Related cutting-word units: cast-; castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; mutil-; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; trunc-.

【同源单词】anatomy, atom, cephalotomy, cirsotomy, colostomy, computerized tomography